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 Newsletter #4 | July 2021

 

With this newsletter we invite you to a quick overview about our newest activities and achievements. Hope you will enjoy reading! If you are interested in any of them, let us know.

The ifempower project team

Final Multiplier Event - 12 July 2021- join us!

ifempower Final Study

 

The ifempower final study will summarize the outcomes and lessons learnt from the project including good practices and case studies identified. The study will be unique due to the innovatively of the whole project thus an important tool to assess the project activities carried out. It will also include policy recommendations for national & EU level decision makers in order to support the project outputs and their evaluation will be as broadly disseminated and channelled into the relevant places as support the improvement of policies, educational programmes, social attitudes, etc. This study will be the major mean to ensure that project outputs will be transferred to other institutions & countries. The final study will also examine whether envisaged impact of the project in the short term were met. The preliminary results of the Final Study will be presented at the Final Multiplier Event.

The preliminary results of the Final Study will be presented at the Final Multiplier Event.

If you are interested, register for the event here

 

The ifempower online education platform provide support that is especially made for you!

You may find good practices or specific suggestions to your specific problems based on real entrepreneurs’ expertise, from practical examples and real-life challenges. This toolkit was developed as a complementary support tool to the personal support points developed by the project and it aims to enable visitors to find good practices or specific suggestions to their specific problems.

As it is online and free of charge, it can help female students or women in general who are interested in creating their own business in the EU in various ways, including legislative, administrative, managerial, or personal issues which are based on stakeholder interviews, practical, real-life challenges of female entrepreneurs.

The materials will be available in partner languages (DE, HU, ES, PT and RO) in addition to EN. Coming soon, stay tuned!

 

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ifempower Spring School successfully ended on April 2021

After a week of intense work, the ifempower Spring School has successfully ended on 13th April 2021. Originally the training would have been held in Miercurea Ciuc, hosted by the Romanian project partner Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, but due to Covid-19 pandemic it was held online. Based on the lessons learnt from the ifempower Winter School, which also had to be held online, the organizers managed to make the most out of the online format.

ifempower Spring School is a higher education study program for female students selected at the partner universities: Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary), Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania (Romania), Sigmund Freud University (Austria). The Spanish project partner, Andalucía Emprende also selected students from Andalusian universities.

This intensive training consisted of thematic days. Each day had a specific theme, which were made-up by a) a session presented by a speaker b) a group discussion based on self-awareness and c) special small-groups work to support the development of business ideas of the students.

During the Spring School, students also had the opportunity to take part in wonderful leisure activities: Moonrise band gave a fantastic concert on the evening of Day3, while Ms Pilar Algaba held a fascinating flamenco workshop and performance after the Multiplier Event, and as a closing accord to the Spring School as well. During the lunch breaks of the Spring School, students also received different online workout videos, provided by Ms Esther Berg, Ms Aliz Molnár, Ms Diána Kovács, and Ms Kata Pongrácz, to move their bodies and freshen up their minds.

 

 

 

On behalf of the Project Coordinator, HETFA Research Institute, Ms Fanni Bobák, Senior Project Manager, introduced the project and its main achievements. One of the key project results is the online toolkit, which is an Online Education Platform for female entrepreneurs. The English version of the toolkit is already available via our project website, here. The materials will be available in partner languages (DE, HU, ES, PT and RO) in addition to EN. Coming soon, stay tuned!

The Keynote speech of the morning session was given by Ms Enikő Sógor, Deputy Mayor of Miercurea Ciuc, Transylvania, Romania, where the Multiplier Event would originally take place. Ms Sógor, being also a teacher, psychologist, and psychotherapist spoke about the difficulties women face when they try to break out of traditional roles. Being the first woman fulfilling the role of Deputy Mayor in Miercurea Ciuc, Ms Sógor could speak about first-hand experiences and share her thoughts with the audience.

During the morning session, Ms Erzsébet Fanni Tóth, Lecturer at Sigmund Freud University presented the concept, methods and results of ifempower training schools, which were held between 31/01/2021 – 06/02/2021 (Winter School) and 07/04/2021 – 13/04/2021 (Spring School).

During the morning session, the students of the ifempower Spring School training programme presented their business ideas during the Pitch Session. The pitches were evaluated by the members of the Jury: Ms Clara López Pliego (Consultant and Manager of innovation projects, Barrabés.biz, Spain), Ms Virginie Poncet (Senior Advisor, Bpifrance, France) and Ms Ágnes Puskás (Economist, Chair of BPW Association Budapest and BPW DanubeNet, Hungary).

The Keynote of the afternoon session was dedicated to the situation of female entrepreneurs in the time of COVID-19. The theme was presented by colleagues from HETFA, coordinator of the project, Ms Luca Koltai (Head of Division for Public Policy and Impact Assessment, HETFA, Hungary) and Ms Réka Geambaşu (Senior research fellow, HETFA, Hungary).

HETFA Research Institute launched a research project in May 2020 to better understand the situation of female entrepreneurs during the coronavirus pandemic. The research, based on an online questionnaire survey and personal interviews, examined how female entrepreneurs coped with the difficulties caused by the virus, both on the economic and family fronts. This report provided the baseline for the Keynote. You can find the report here.
 
After the Keynote, the roundtable discussion moderated by Ms Rosa Siles Moreno (Managing Director of Andalucía Emprende, Spain) focused on the challenges and/or advantages women facing in launching an enterprise during the days of pandemic. Panellists were Ms Gabriela Kostovska-Bogoeska (Executive Director of MIR, Coordinator of WEgate community), Dr. Marie Theres Thiell (Supervisory Board Member and Networker, Vice President of the German Hungarian Chamber of Commerce) Ms Ralitsa Zhekova (Executive Director of RAPIV) and Ms Sophie Rendl (Co-founder of Frauendomäne).

We would like to invite you to our FINAL Multiplier Event of ifempower project, which will be held on 12 July 2021. Please, save the date and spread the word about it.

The registration is already open! Get yourself a seat by filling this registration form now. We count on your participation – join us!

Check out the agenda here for more details about the sections and speakers!

 

 

 

 

News & Events

ifempower keeps its News & Events pages up-to-date with latest information about our project’s activities and also promoting other initiatives related with female entrepreneurship that can be very interesting for you. The project has turned into its last semester, so it is especially important to check the website where all the latest updates and outputs are available. Check these pages regularly for updates here: